Chapter 409 – Invasion and Devouring

Chapter 409 – Invasion and Devouring

The current Heywood only had the strength of a first level apprentice. It was easy for Saul to tackle him.

However, Saul did not take this option in the end.

He suddenly wanted to keep Heywood.

This Heywood had an extremely clear consciousness and the ability to answer questions, not something a simple illusion could do.

Saul wondered what exactly was the power that constituted the Haywood in this illusion?
After making his decision, he began to rummage around the room.

On the side, Haywood started to just stare at his three candles.

After a while, the movement around him grew so loud that he couldn’t help but part one eye to look over.

This look made his entire head turn.

“What are you doing? Didn’t I tell you to be quiet at night?”

Saul, however, had already begun to draw circles on the ground with the materials he had retrieved from the rag pile.

As he drew, he answered Heywood’s question.

“I’m drawing a sorcery spell.”

Heywood was originally a bit angry, but when he saw the spell formation that Saul was drawing, he hesitantly approached him again.

Although his strength was not working now, his insight was still there, and he instantly recognized that this spell formation of Saul’s was not simple.

“Is this a defense-type spell formation you have here?” His eyes lit up, perhaps Sol could provide other ways to hide from the contamination in the darkness.

“Something like that.” Sol replied casually as he continued to work, constantly picking at the materials in his hands.

He wasn’t lying anyway, the best defense, was the offense!
Haywood became even more interested.

He wasn’t strong enough right now, and even if he could draw the spell formation that Saul was currently inscribing, he wouldn’t be able to start it at all.

But he had just unexpectedly completely forgotten that he could make Saul activate it ah!

“It seems that these hundred years have really stiffened my mind.” He hadn’t been this excited in a long time.

Haywood clenched his dry hands and leaned over, “Is there anything I can do to help?”

Thor stopped his hands just in time and smiled, “Sure. There are plenty of materials here, but most of them have little energy. I need something like magic crystals or something that provides magic power, is there any more here?”

Haywood’s face fell, “The magic crystals were consumed long ago.”

Saul had thought about that possibility, and didn’t count on being too disappointed.

He finished drawing the last rune and stood by the sorcery spell formation in thought.

“This is a special environment that should be constituted with spiritual power. So without the support of enough magic power, will I be able to activate this spell formation with spiritual power as well?”

Sol thought it was worth a try, so he immediately walked up to the spell formation and tried to activate it.

However, the spell formation did not change.

Sol raised his eyebrows, “Is magic power even necessary?”

He couldn’t help but cover his forehead with his hand, “Sure enough there is always logic embedded underneath this world. If I hadn’t seen the diary, I’m afraid I would once again doubt that this is the real world.”

The sighing ended here, Saul still needed to find a suitable source of magic power.

He couldn’t help but turn his attention to the candles behind Heywood, “Will these do? Just how do I convince Haywood to give me the candles to use?”

Saul spoke with deliberation, “Heywood, I need a strong enough magic medium ……”

“Yes.” Who would have guessed that before Saul could finish his sentence, Heywood nodded his head in agreement.

Could it be because he still had a lot of candles?

Saul was just about to open his mouth, but he was shocked to see that Heywood had actually ripped off his right hand!
He immediately widened his eyes.

“This sorcery spell of yours is very powerful, if it’s utilized well, it might be able to take us out of the range of the Sorcerer’s Tower curse!” Heywood’s cloudy eyes seemed to be much clearer as he handed over his bloody right arm, while not forgetting to keep an eye on the doorway at all times, “But be careful, don’t trigger too much magic fluctuation before you draw it successfully, and you’ll be in trouble if you lure them in again.”

Saul took Haywood’s arm and sighed softly.

This kind of material was really what he used to use often. Only the difference was that he used to unload it from corpses.

It was the first time it was this hot.

But according to the logic of this world. Although the pale Haywood didn’t have much spiritual power left, his body was indeed still that of a top tier three sorcerer apprentice, and coupled with the fact that he favored physical enhancement, the amount of magical power contained within his limbs was extremely large.

If the materials were graded, this arm could definitely be placed in the second storehouse!

Without much hesitation, Saul immediately did the magic channeling treatment and then placed it on the energy source node of the sorcery spell formation.

He had already drawn this spell formation many times and didn’t even need to check it at all.

Haywood, on the other hand, stood at the edge of the spell formation and carefully observed the formation runes and structure. Before he could see it completely clearly, Saul walked to the center of the spell formation.

“Could it be that he’s going to activate the sorcery spell formation now?” Haywood jumped up with a jolt of fear and was just about to stop it when he saw that the magic power on the spell formation had already begun to flow.

Seeing such an obvious flow of magic, Haywood immediately looked at the doorway. Sure enough, the world outside the door disappeared and was once again shrouded in darkness.

It was too late to stop now!
Haywood simply grabbed the candle on the floor with his only remaining right hand and stood between Sol and the doorway.

Surprisingly, he wanted to stall for Saul.

After Saul made sure the spell was activated, he looked up and saw Heywood in front of him.

This was really out of his expectation.

Saul had thought that Heywood would be holding a few candles and hiding in the far corner of the room like before.

After observing the spell formation that Saul had drawn, he actually made a judgment in a short period of time and chose to venture out together!
“This Heywood ……” Sol secretly narrowed his eyes.

Then, he suddenly spoke, “Heywood, you come in as well. Stand on my left hand side.”

Haywood’s heart was delighted, his face remained unchanged, and he hurriedly held up the candle and retreated to Saul’s side.

Saul stared at the increasingly darkened doorway and willed his surrounding magic power and spiritual power to run simultaneously.

“Right now there is no Penny to help me stabilize my emotions …… Forget it, I’ll try to control my emotions on my own now that my spiritual power has been raised again!”

The spell that Sol constructed this time was none other than the Consciousness Platform.

He was going to use consciousness to fight against consciousness!

Soon, with the flow of magic, the skin of Saul’s entire body began to become translucent, and a layer of white frost quickly condensed on the surface.

Immediately, he felt icy coldness that pierced his bones, as if his blood was about to stop flowing.

This was the first time that Saul tried to change the “temperature” of his spiritual body, before he only changed the “shape”.

The extreme cold caused his brain to go numb.

Thor’s whole body muscles were trembling, but his eyes were getting calmer and calmer.

Even though the darkness outside the main door had swallowed the entire room, there was no fluctuation in his eyes.

Finally, he closed his eyes, and darkness and blackness came at the same time ……

Opening them again, underneath Saul’s feet was already a huge round stone platform suspended in the unknown darkness.

He stood in the center of the stone platform, with the huge diary suspended above his head.

In the darkness around them were many twinkling stars.

“It’s also possible for a mere mental body to enter the platform of consciousness.” Saul thought with an expressionless face.

Although the attempt was successful, he who had frozen his emotions didn’t feel the slightest bit happy and had immediately entered analysis mode.

“Then, if those existences affecting my consciousness still want to strike at me, they should appear here.”

He swept his gaze across the stone platform and the diary above his head, finally resting on the starry sky in the distance.

Although the surroundings of Sol’s consciousness platform were originally pitch-black darkness, as he gazed past it, he realized that the darkness had become thicker.

It was as if someone had added a viscous agent to the water.

Moreover, that darkness had begun to erode the position of the stars, as if it wanted to turn this place into an all-black realm.

Then, the stars began to blink, twinkle by twinkle, as if resisting the invasion of darkness.

“I’ve never controlled those stars before, I wonder if the diary will only protect me in the platform, or will it even protect the stars?”

As Saul was thinking about it, he suddenly realized that the stars had sped up their blinking frequency, like a person blinking rapidly.

“Blinking? Eyes?” For some reason, Saul suddenly felt that these stars within the platform of consciousness were also like the presence of eyes in the sandwich.

After the stars quickly blinked, the darkness that had become thick returned to the lofty clarity of the night sky.

But the darkness didn’t give up, and soon they came again, polluting the night sky and surging towards the stars with greater momentum, as if they wanted to swallow the stars that resisted them first.

This time, however, the stars, which were still twinkling, suddenly emitted an extremely bright light.

Even Saul, who was observing, was shaken for a moment and could not see anything at all.

A few seconds later, when he regained his eyesight, he saw …… saw those stars, and surprisingly, they had already devoured the invading darkness in turn.

The invaders finally realized that they had run into a hard case, but it was too late to escape.

The viscous darkness had not been driven away, and they would never be able to leave.

The darkness was sucked into the stars a little, but it made the stars shine even brighter.

The entire time, the diary was not used to make a move!
When all the intruders were absorbed, the consciousness platform once again regained its previous calm.

But Saul knew that he was afraid that there was something more terrifying in his platform!

(End of chapter)